Magnifying device for threading needles.



W. C. ADAMS.

MAGNIFYING DEVICE FOR THREADING NEEDLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1915.

Patented Feb. 15,1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. c.

WILLIAM C. ADAMS, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MAGNIFYING DEVICE FOR .THREADING NEEDLES.

Specification of Letters iatent.

Application filed May 29, 1915. Serial No. 31,287.

.T 0 all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM C. ADAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Magnifying Device for Threading Needlesof which the following is a specification, reference being had thereinto the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a magnifying device for use in threadingneedles and like work.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a device which willenable persons with poor eye sight to thread needles without strainingthe eyes and to this end 1 provide means for magnifying the thread andneedle so that the operation of threading the needle may be more easilyperformed.

Another object is to provide a device which is convenient in form andcan be set up for use without requiring a special supporting apparatus.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device which is simpleand cheap in construction and small and compact in com- )ass.

1 Other objects of the invention will be more specifically set forth anddescribed hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred embodiment of myinvention, Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing a device made inaccordance with my invention mounted on an ordinary spool-and in actualuse for threading a needle, and Fig.

2 is a side elevation of the device showing in dotted lines themagnifying member in a folded position. 7 1

Referring to the drawings, the preferred embodiment V of my inventioncomprises a magnifying member or glass 3, preferably mounted in asupporting rim 4 which is con nected by a hinge 5 to a supporting member6. The latter is made of flexible wire and is preferably bent into theform shown in Fig. 2, having its lowermost end turned back to form ahook or clamp 7, by means of which the device may be supported in anoperative position.

In Fig. l the device is shown as mounted in a spool 8 of ordinaryconstruction, the

hook or clamp 7 being forced within the bore 9 of the spool. This is theprincipal method of supporting the device and probably the mostconvenient because it is obvious that where aneedle is to be threadedthere is generally a spool at hand in which to mount the device. It isalso apparent that my device may be mounted on a sewing machine or otherarticle of furniture by utilizing the hook or-clamp 7 for grasping someportion of the article. The position of the supporting member 6 in thusmounting it is immaterial because the magnifying member can be PatentedFeb;'1'5,'1916.

moved on the hinge 5 into the position neces- V sary for use. Thesupporting member may, 1f necessary, be bent into any form to accomplishthis purpose.

By having the rim hinged t0 the pp the device may be folded as shown bythe to some stationary'part of a machine or other object, and themagnifying member 3 is then turned into proper position so that when theneedle and thread are held underneath the glass in the position shown inFig. 1,1 they can be seen as magnified through the g ass. i

It will be obvious that the device is extremely simple both inconstruction and op- 'eration and is of such small compass that it 7 canbe carried in a small sewing bag or work :whereby it may be mountedwithin the bore of a spool.

3. A magnifying device for threading needles comprising amagnifyinglens, a supporting rim therefor and a flexible supporthand inthe presence of two subscribing Wit ing member hinged t0 said rim thelower end; messes, this the twenty-sixth day of'Maly, of said flexiblesuppdrting riiember being 1915;

turned tofofm 2i hook or lanip whereby it WILLIAM C. ADAMS, 5 may betemporarily attached toe fixed sup- Vitnesses: t port. F; J. VQDAKIN,

In Witness whereof, I hereunto set my E; F. UNIAC.

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